Flowers From the Garden Forever Postage Stamps

Four paintings of arrangements rather than of single flowers, each one in a container: red camellias and yellow forsythia in a yellow pitcher; white peonies and pink tree peonies in a clear vase; white hydrangeas, white and pink roses, green hypericum berries and purple lisianthus in a white vase; and a fourth to complete the set. The flowers are ordinary American garden stock, cut and put in something - not florist's work.

That domesticity is what makes them usable. They carry thank-you notes after a dinner, sympathy cards, notes to a grandmother, invitations to anything held at a house rather than a venue. Florists and garden centers put them on their own correspondence. Sold in booklets, with the four designs repeating through the book, so four cards to the same household can each get a different arrangement. Forever value, so each one covers a one-ounce letter at the current rate.